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Journal overview

Comparative Literature: East & West is a peer-reviewed open access journal that publishes research on all aspects of comparative literature. The journal aims to serve as a platform to promote scholarship of comparative literature in the East and West and encourage the exchange of ideas and information.

Comparative Literature: East & West accepts papers on the following topics:

  • Comparative literature
  • World literature
  • Literary criticism
  • Translation studies
  • Media studies
  • Cultural studies
  • Comparative poetics


Comparative Literature: East & West
publishes original contributions to the field of comparative literature. The journal operates on a double anonymized peer review policy.


Comparative Literature: East & West
is sponsored by Research Base of Comparative Literature, National Key Discipline, Sichuan University.

All articles will be made freely and permanently available online through gold open access publication.

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